The Brooklyn Nets will be without their lead ball-handler on Wednesday against the Phoenix Suns. D’Angelo Russell will be sidelined due to left hamstring tightness/injury management on the second night of a back-to-back.

Ben Simmons and D'Angelo Russell's statuses for Saturday's Nets-Heat matchup are unclear amid a losing streak.

Devin Booker and the Phoenix Suns (21-21) will visit the Brooklyn Nets (14-30) at Barclays Center on Wednesday, January 22. The game starts at 7:30 PM ET.In their last game on Monday, the Suns

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In the team's second meeting this season with the Phoenix Suns ... Typically, that void is filled by D'Angelo Russell, but a nagging hamstring issue will prevent him from stepping into that ...

Phoenix is notably coming off of an ugly loss at the hands of the NBA-best Cleveland Cavaliers, but the silver lining is that the Nets are currently boasting a 14-29 record and that the roster largely remains healthy going into the matchup. There are only two names on the current injury report, and the names have been mainstays over the last week.

BROOKLYN – Phoenix Suns guard Bradley Beal is ruled out of Wednesday’s game against Brooklyn at Barclays Center with a left ankle sprain after playing Monday at Cleveland following a two-game absence with the injury. “There’s soreness,” Suns coach Mike Budenholzer said before Wednesday’s game. “He's unable to go."

The Suns listed guard Bradley Beal as out (left ankle sprain) for Phoenix's game against an injury-hit Brooklyn Nets team on Wednesday.

The Brooklyn Nets will be without their lead ball-handler on Wednesday against the Phoenix Suns. D’Angelo Russell will be sidelined due to left hamstring tightness/injury management on the ...

Point-spread: Nets (+12.5) Over/Under: 215.5 Nets : OUT: Bojan Bogdanovic (foot), Maxwell Lewis (tibia), De'Anthony Melton (knee), D'Angelo Russell (hamstring), Cam Thomas (hamstring), Trendon Watford (hamstring), and Ziaire Williams (ankle). DOUBTFUL: Cam Johnson (ankle) and Ben Simmons (illness).

Russell is in the Nets' starting lineup against the Heat on Saturday, C.J. Holmes of the New York Daily News reports. Russell did not play against the Suns on Wednesday due to personal reasons, but he will return Saturday and enter the Nets' starting five.